Recently I was watching a favorite documentaries series that I occasionally will watch on YouTube called town team. A show where a group of archaeologists majoring in various fields go to specific places usually in Britain seeing as it is a British show and spend three days conducting a small scale archaeological dig. Most of the time things like Iron Age, British Roman and things around that nature. The other day I watched an episode centering on the Anglo-Saxons. Now I’m a bit of an amateur historian myself but my knowledge is more around the American Civil War.

And one thing that I’ve always been curious about is why is it referred to as the dark ages in the time directly following the fall of the Roman empire and lasting essentially until the Italian Renaissance? (I could have my dates mixed up and if so I apologize. Like I said my Knowledge is largely in the American Civil War.)